The Open Boat

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Life has got different connotation for everyone . It 's a constant learning process throughout our lives . Shades of happiness , agony , pain frustration are all part and parcel of life and one subtle message that life tends to give us is that nothing can be achieved without thriving for it or making an all out effort to achieve it . Destiny favours the brave and blaming everything as pre-destined is an act of the coward Those who get this lesson

early in life never get annoyed with the mix of emotions that life has to offer and eventually succeed and those who blame the forces for all their ills gradually but eventually perish Everyone is equally prejudiced and treated as favourite by nature

In his short story "The Open Boat " based on an original account by the author Stephen Crane tries to show and give us the same message : a Universe these conditions that Man has to make struggle to survive . The protagonists in the story learn this fact by facing this apathy of the sea towards them and are almost overwhelmed by the nature 's lack of concern for them . They win the battle of survival only by fighting bravely against all the odds , patience and mutual cooperation

The story begins with four men , addressed as the captain , the correspondent , the oiler and the cook , stranded in the ocean in a small boat or dinghy . The author at the start of the story displays the hostility of the man and the sea and nature 's indifference for the tragedy they were in "The birds sat comfortably in groups , and they were envied by some in the dinghy , for the wrath of the sea was no more to them than it was to a covey of prairie chickens a thousand miles inland " The men are in an anxious state and are constantly fighting a losing battle against the fury of the sea , but the nature shows no pity on them and continues in its wayward ways not taking in to account the consequences they have to face . The Sun continues to rise and set everyday but the sailors are aware of that by the changing color of waves due to the rising and setting sun . The shore is "lonely and indifferent " They are even confronted by a wild shark , who finally decides that these men are of no use to her . The men , though , are least aware about whats happening around them fighting the ghosts within but still somehow in the centre of all the action . The current state that they are in makes them more and more pessimist and a feeling sinks in that the whole Universe is hostile to them "The waves were nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats " At this point though they fail to appreciate that it is a natural phenomenon and they are just unlucky to be...